“But in some ways Ravelston was not even like a moneyed person. The fatty degeneration of the spirit which goes with wealth had missed him, or he had escaped it by conscious effort. Indeed his whole life was a struggle to escape it. It was for this reason that he gave up his time andContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Covert Socialist Embarrassed with His Wealth (George Orwell)”
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RKS British Literature: Master and Beggars in Burma! (George Orwell)
“No natives in this Club! It’s by constantly giving way over small things like that we’ve ruined the Empire. This country’s only rotten with sedition because we’ve been too soft with them. The only possible policy is to treat em like the dirt they are. This is a critical moment, and we want every bitContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Master and Beggars in Burma! (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A British Colonialist’s Hatred of Orientals (George Orwell)
“Ellis really did hate Orientals-hated them with a bitter, restless loathing as of something evil or unclean. Living and working, as the assistant of a timber firm must, in perpetual contact with the Burmese, he had never grown used to the sight of a black face. Any hint of friendly feeling towards an Oriental seemedContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A British Colonialist’s Hatred of Orientals (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Advertising the Dirtiest Ramp Produced by Capitalism (George Orwell)
“The interesting thing about the New Albion was that it was so completely modern in spirit. There was hardly a soul in the firm who was not perfectly aware that publicity-advertising- is the dirtiest ramp capitalism has yet produced. In the red lead firm there had still lingered certain notions of commercial honour and usefulness.Continue reading “RKS British Literature: Advertising the Dirtiest Ramp Produced by Capitalism (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Two Ways of Living (George Orwell)
“There are two ways to live. You can be rich, or you can deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it. He took it for granted that he himself would never be able to make money.Continue reading “RKS British Literature: Two Ways of Living (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Don’t Fight the British Colonizers of Burma: Be a Parasite (George Orwell)
“U Po Kyin’s earliest memory, back in the eighties, was of standing, a naked pot-bellied child, watching the British troops march victorious into Mandalay. He remembered the terror he had felt of those columns of great beef-fed men, red faced and red-coated; and the long rifles over their shoulders, and the heavy, rhythmic tramp ofContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Don’t Fight the British Colonizers of Burma: Be a Parasite (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: British Worship of the Money-God (George Orwell)
“The types he saw all round him, especially the older men, made him squirm. That was what it meant to worship the money-god! To settle down, to Make Good, to sell your soul for a villa and an aspidistra! To turn into the little bowler-hatted sneak-Strube’s ‘little man’-the little docile cit who slips home byContinue reading “RKS British Literature: British Worship of the Money-God (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: One Great Cruelty One Can Inflict on a Child (George Orwell)
“Even at the third-rate schools to which Gordon was sent nearly all the boys were richer than himself. They soon found out his poverty, of course, and gave him hell because of it. Probably the greatest cruelty one can inflict on a child is to send it to school among children richer than itself. AContinue reading “RKS British Literature: One Great Cruelty One Can Inflict on a Child (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Lorenheim the Lizard Like Lodger (George Orwell)
“On the second floor lived Lorenheim, a dark meagre lizard-like creature of uncertain age and race who made about thirty-five shillings a week by touting vacuum cleaners. Gordon always went hurriedly past Lorenheim’s door. Lorenheim was one of those people who have not a single friend in the world and who are devoured by lustContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Lorenheim the Lizard Like Lodger (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Never Fat Just Stout (George Orwell)
“He was really horribly fat. He filled his trousers as though he had been melted and then poured into them. But of course, like other fat people, he never admitted to being fat. No fat person ever uses the word ‘fat’ if there is any way of avoiding it. ‘Stout’ is the word they use-orContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Never Fat Just Stout (George Orwell)”
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